Image Comics is taking the show on the road this weekend, making its way across the country for New York Comic-Con 2010! Come by booth 1647 to pick up your favorite Image trades and exclusive merchandise for THE WALKING DEAD!

Friday
4:30-5:30pm, Room 1A14
Image Comics: The Writers
Some of Image Comics’ favorite writers get together to describe the writing process for their books, from inception to publication. Join juggernauts Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), Nick Spencer (Morning Glories), Ron Marz (Firebreather vs. Dragon Prince), and Steven T. Seagle (The Crusades) for a discussion about writing, followed by Q&A.

Sunday
12:00-1:00pm, Room 1A24
Creating Comics the Image Comics Way
How do Image Creators make the best books in the business? Join us for a roundtable discussion of creator-owned comics, with an insider’s perspective on how ownership makes the creative process more fulfilling. Jim Valentino (ShadowHawk), Greg Capullo (Haunt), Marc Guggenheim (Halcyon), Tim Seeley (Hack/Slash), Joe Casey (Officer Downe), and Ben Templesmith (Choker) share their thoughts on publishing with Image Comics.

Come support Free Expression, the 2010 LIBERTY ANNUAL, and mingle with the greatest talents in comics at the CBLDF’s NYCC Welcome Party, presented by Image Comics and The Beat! We’ll have special gifts, copies of the Liberty Annual and special open bar bracelets!

Starting at 8 p.m., this event is free and open to everyone! With a suggested donation of $10 or more, you will receive a special gift bag, full of goodies from Image Comics & CBLDF! In addition to great gifts, an open bar will be available for donations of $30 and $50. Preordering bracelets is strongly encouraged, as we’ll have a very small quantity of them at the door. For information on Open Bar bracelets, please visit: http://tinyurl.com/38rgblr.

Start your New York Comic Con off right by celebrating with the CBLDF, Image Comics, and The Beat. The CBLDF’s NYCC Welcome Party will feature surprise guest artists from the pages of CBLDF’s LIBERTY ANNUAL 2010, as well as a chance to meet comics’ best creators, insiders, and fellow fans, in a star-spangled festival of good comics and free speech!

Don’t miss Image Comics at New York Comic-Con 2010, October 8-10, at booth 1647!

FORBIDDEN PLANET is delighted to announce that we’ve teamed up with COM.X to find out who really does have the Super-S gene! On Thursday 4th February at 5:30pm at the London Megastore, 179 Shaftesbury Avenue, we have an event with:

To promote the release of 45 we’ve gathered together writers and artists from the entire book to sign, sketch and chat!

This will be one of our trademark free-form signings – no tables, no queues. With an array of fantastic Com.X titles on hand, this event blows away the barriers and gives readers and fans a change to really find out what goes on in the world of comics!

Join The Beguiling in welcoming RUFUS DAYGLO, the brand new artist of TANK GIRL. Handpicked by co-creator and writer Alan C. Martin and co-creator Jamie Hewlett, DAYGLO has been drawing the adventures of Tank, Jet, Booga and company in Britain’s weekly 2000AD anthology for a few months now, and also provided artistic duties alongside Ashley Wood on the recent IDW Tank Girl series’!

Rufus Dayglo will be signing and sketching for fans at The Beguiling on Friday, August 7th from 6pm-8pm. The first 20 attendees will get a free copy of 2000AD with an Alan Martin/Rufus Dayglo TANK GIRL story in it!